Sharp Objects Quotes

“vomited down the side of the car, unable to get the door open fast enough. I used my old warm cup of strawberry pop and vodka to wash it off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“You cold, honey? Your nipples are hard.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“You are thinking crazy thoughts. You are being un reasonable. But I’m not. My mother killed Marian. My mother killed those little girls.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Yeah, she likes that one,” Amma mumbled. “You fall asleep all hot and drooly, and then she can bring her friends in to look at you.” “She’s done this before?” My body went cold under the sweat. I was right: Something horrible was about to happen”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Come on, Amma, you can’t care that much,” I said, touching her shoulder. “I did.” I couldn’t take it, I was losing ground, feeling that dangerous need to please, just like the old days. And really, one wasn’t going to kill me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It’ll be your turn some day, Amma,” he said. “Soon.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Now she wore a tank and a skirt that passed her crotch by an inch.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“This was difficult, as she soon had Alan’s child, eight months after he married her. She was twenty, he was thirty-five, with family money that my mother didn’t need, having plenty of her own.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I slipped my notepad from my jacket pocket and began scribbling notes to one side until my mother slapped her hand on mine and hissed, “You are being disrespectful and embarrassing. Stop or I will make you leave.” I quit writing but kept the pad out, feeling stabbingly defiant. But still blushing.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Problemas sempre começam muito antes de você realmente, realmente vê-los.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“As a child, I struggled to find a solid resemblance between my mother and myself, some link that would prove I came from her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I’d be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“That sweet muddy smell was purely animal, like the deepest corner of a bear’s cave. It was almost foreign to me, this lived-in, overnight odor.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“She took my hand and offered me a pure, sweet smile, petting my palm, which might have felt better than any touch I’d ever experienced.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“She swayed slightly as I came through the door, like a ghost debating whether to vanish. She stayed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“don't tell mama...”
― gillian flynn, Sharp Objects

“Creo que algunas mujeres no están hechas para ser madres, simplemente. Y algunas no están hechas para ser hijas”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A las mujeres las consume la enfermedad. No es de extrañar teniendo en cuenta la gran cantidad de transito interno que soporta una mujer. Tampones y espéculos. Pollas dedos vibradores y mas cosas entre las piernas, por detrás, en la boca. A los hombres les encanta meter cosas dentro de las mujeres, ¿no es así? Pepinos, plátanos y botellas, un collar de perlas, un rotulador, un puño”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“As a child, I don’t remember ever telling Adora my favorite color, or what I’d like to name my daughter when I grew up. I don’t think she ever knew my favorite dish, and I certainly never padded down to her room in the early-morning hours, teary from nightmares. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I’d been good about booze for six months, but nothing counted here.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“When I’d wanted attention, I’d submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma’s sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It’s the kind of place that leaves a mark.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains. We were body searched twice weekly for any sharp objects, and sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame. After a month of good behaviour, we earned silky baths and massages. We were taught the goodness of touch.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Whenever I’m here, " I stopped, tried to pull it together. "I just always feel like I’m a bad person when I’m here.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Flash of Marian, now bones in a coffin, a white satin ribbon wrapped around dried blonde curls, like some bouquet gone stale.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“This is the unforgiving light of morning,’ I whispered back. ‘Time to drop the illusion.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects